[Stephen Edgar]

Using the default bbPress settings I just threw up a IIS install of WP 3.5 and bbPress 2.2.3

http://localhost:81/forums/
http://localhost:81/forums/forum/test-forum/
http://localhost:81/forums/topic/test-topic/

For the test topic I added a reply and clicked submit and the resulting URL is correct

http://localhost:81/forums/topic/test-topic/#post-7

[apet083]

Thanks for your reply Stephen. The site is live on Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.5

All other links seem to work, it is just when people reply to topics that it jumps around…

After resetting permalinks on my dev environment and setting the slugs to the WordPress defaults these are the URLS.

Navigating to a topic from the list of recent topics:
http://localhost/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/

Navigating to a forum from the list of forums:
http://localhost/sitename/forums/forum/forum-name/

Navigating to a topic after clicking on a forum from above:
http://localhost/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/ (this is consistent with the first link which is good).

Posting a reply from inside test-topic
http://localhost/sitename/forums/forum/forum-name/#post-158293

Posting a reply from http://localhost/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/#post-158277:
http://localhost/sitename/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/#post-158294

Note that it doubled the sitename ^ but this doesn’t seem to affect it and lands back at the topic which is what I want.

[Stephen Edgar]

Your topic replies URL should be displaying in the format:

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/butterflies/#post-158277

When I set my bbPress settings to the same settings you use above these are the URL’s:

Forums base: forum (Note: Default bbPress setting is ‘forums’)
Topics base: topics (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘topics’)
Forum Prefix ticked (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘ticked/checked’)
Forum slug: forums (Note: Default bbPress setting is ‘forum’)
Topic slug: topic (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘topic’)

http://localhost/sitename/forum/forums/butterflies/

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/test-topic/

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/butterflies/#post-158277

I would try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

If you have no luck I would read up on the LAMP/MAMP (Linux/Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP) package you are using on what settings are needed for mod_rewrite to work on your local machine.

There are also a few (and a few broken links here) installing WordPress Locally
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Installation_Techniques#Installing_WordPress_Locally

[apet083]

Hi I am having an issue with my forum URL rewrite rules/slugs/permalinks.
At the moment I am testing this in my dev environment.
I have a page that is called FORUM and contains my recent topic and forum shortcodes. This page is located at localhost/sitename/forum

My slug settings are:
Archive Slugs
Forums base: forum
Topics base: topics

Single Slugs
Forum Prefix ticked
Forum slug: forums
Topic slug: topic
Topic tag slug: topic-tag
Reply slug: reply
User slug: user
Topic view slug: view

When I navigate to a forum the URL looks like this:

http://localhost/sitename/forum/forums/butterflies/

When I navigate to a topic inside that forum, the URL looks like this:

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/test-topic/

When I reply to a topic, the URL rewrites to this:

http://localhost/sitename/forum/forums/butterflies/#post-158277

So obviously this is an incorrect URL and just takes me back to the forum home page with the list of recent topics.

How can I make the URL format be consistent? Something like:
http://localhost/sitename/forum/forum-name/test-topic/#post-158277

Thanks

[Lynq]

I downloaded the latest version of bbPress and the latest version of wordpress, did a local install probably only 5 days ago at max and then re created it using the functions from my teamoverpowered.com site.

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, I am currently looking for feedback on the vBulletin importer and there have been reports that users do not get imported correctly, did your users get imported correctly?

eg. Migrating vBulletin 4.0.4 to bbPress 2.2.3 and bug tracking ticket #1991.

What version of vBulletin and bbPress are you using?

I personally don’t have access to vBulletin so I haven’t been able to test much of anything relating to vBulletin basically so helping out with your .htaccess would also be a bit of hit and miss.

Stack Exchange has some great examples of rewrites

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.htaccess+mod-rewrite
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mod-rewrite

This is one of my favourites even though it is not specific to any of your needs here it is a good example of mod_rewrite regex rules.

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4318171/how-to-regex-and-htaccess-rewrite-url

A couple of other resources to help along the way:

• htaccess tester
• An In Depth Guide to mod_rewrite for Apache
• reFiddle regex expression testing

[Lynq]

Have you tried going to Settings > Permalinks and re-saving your permalinks, this worked for me when I local test stopped displaying the forum pages.

[Hansaplastique]

I have no idea – it seems that this is a tinyMCE plugin?
I haven’t played with 3rd party tinyMCE plugins yet – but if you tell me how to install it, then I wouldn’t mind testing it for you.

Bottomline is that you’ll have to look for the “keyword” to get the button to become visible (in this case “preview” according to this link). Add that keyword to the “array_push” list.

One plugin I use (WP Smileys) requires that I make a few minor modifications;

In functions.php (in the code above, just below “add_filter(‘mce_buttons_2’, ‘add_tinymce_buttons_2’);”), I had to add:

// Restore the smileys plugin
add_filter(“mce_external_plugins”, “s4w_tinymce_addplugin”);
add_filter(‘mce_buttons’, ‘s4w_tinymce_registerbutton’);

[Juba]

I recently installed bbpress on my blog but needed the existing Mingle forum live so that I could transfer some of the posts to the new install of bbpress so i set it up as test.

After transferring most of the posts I needed, I wanted to use the existing forum page as the new forum homepage so I inserted /forum/ as my main prefix for the url.

Now I can’t get the homepage but I can view the topic pages. When I enter /forum on my site, it just shows a blank page or redirects to the main site page.

My site is http://tenerifefroum.org.es and the forum should be with a /forum after the url.

Here is one of the topic pages:
http://tenerifeforum.org.es/forum/board/reviews/

If anyone can help on how I can get the forum to work, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks

[Prometheus Fire]

There were a few people who were reporting 404 errors for some logged in users, myself included, in the announcement thread here http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-2-3-released/

Instead of clogging up that thread with that problem, I’m starting a new one. To summarize, admins can access the forums, but some logged in users cannot. On my site I’ve been getting reports daily that some members cannot access the forums. I have two testing account on my site, one can access and another, newly created cannot. It receives the 404 error.

Logged out users can load all the forums with no problem, as can admins. Resetting permalinks doesn’t fix it, and neither does re-installing the plugin. I even went so far as to delete all the _bbp_ options from the wp-options table of the database and that didn’t help either.

I also downgraded to 2.2.2 and that didn’t fix it, so I don’t think the issue is with the latest version, but something else that may have introduced with the new user roles (which I think came in with 2.2), but I only recently started having the issue with version 2.2.3.

One user has rebuilt his database and beat the problem, this may work for some, but I’m not in a position to do that since I’m running mine on multisite and my database is over 2gb with thousands of tables. For me to do that for this when everything else is working fine is a major job.

Any one having this issue should post in this thread and hopefully we can find the problem and solution. As it stands right now for me, about a third of my users are getting the error.

[Prometheus Fire]

I can report that I’m experiencing the same issue that TranThe is experiencing. Many users, once they get logged in are getting 404 errors.

I can’t seem to figure it out. It does not seem to be entirely user role related and doesn’t seem to effect all the users, but I have a number of users and a testing account that get a 404 error.

I see TranThe’s fix above, but that seems pretty drastic, I’m not in a position to re-install WordPress and rebuild the database yet because of this. I’m running BBpress on the mainsite of a multisite install that hosts nearly 100 websites. His fix is great for a single site, but for me that’s a major operation, my database is huge.

[Tareq Hasan]

I am running the latest WordPress and bbPress. Few days back everything was ok. But somehow I am noticing that when making new replies, it’s not showing up in frontend single topic display. It’s showing up after few hours I guess. But it’s normally showing in admin area. There is no caching plugin installed.

Some weird behaviour:
1. The reply count is showing on topic list page. But not showing on single topic.

2. Showing on widget, but their order is not right.

Not sure whats coming wrong.

[Stephen Edgar]

I am currently looking for feedback on the vBulletin importer and this issue has been raised previously in our bug tracking #1991.

At the moment I am working on updating all the forum importers for the next major release of bbPress and waiting and seeking feedback from more users as this still appears broken for some and not others but as I don’t have access to vBulletin myself I cannot test this directly myself, let alone the different versions etc

I would be more than happy to take a look at this for you and make any fixes as needed.

Drop me an email to stephen@netweb.com.au and we can discuss it further.

[AllenPayne]

I would like to add that it the Ultimate TinyMCE editor works well with wordpress posts…It just doesn’t work with bbpress anymore (after last update).

[AllenPayne]

@John James Jacoby

Ultimate TinyMCE buttons show up now after using your code but they don’t work.

I just created a new bbpress post and used the Ultimate TinyMCE’s buttons to make some text bold, change the font size, color, underline, etc.. and when i submitted the post only the bold text remained unchanged. All my other formatting (font size, color, underline) was not preserved and was lost after submission.

Please help.

[Jennifer M. Dodd]

Group forum creation behavior confirmed on /trunk, and it may be related to why your imported forums are not showing up on their respective group pages. bbPress created the forum and assigned it the group_id metadata but did not check off the “enable_forum” column in the wp_bp_groups table on my test group setup. When I went back and checked “Yes. I want this group to have a forum.” in Group > Admin > Forum, it showed up and “enable_forum” flipped to true.

If you have access to phpMyAdmin, can you check your wp_bp_groups table and see if the “enable_forum” column is full of 0s or 1s? If you can’t, that’s okay, too. Don’t break stuff. 🙂

[TranThe]

I also have the same problem on page 404
When logging with bbPress highest account works very well
When not logged into the system everything works very well also
However, when logging in with your member account, 404 occurred with every link of bbPress

This is my website: http://moiluc.com/ wp: v3.5
This is my forum: http://moiluc.com/hangouts bbppress: v: 2.2.3
I use buddypress but only use the x-profile feature: buddypres v1.6.2

You can test error with acc: ngoctrinh pass: s1234567
Any help is really great!

[Bowe]

I just tested this and I can confirm that creating a Private and Public group and attaching a forum to that group works! But there is one issue.. When you go through the Group Creation wizard and check ” Yes. I want this group to have a forum.” and finish creating the group, the forum is NOT added. So you have to go into the Group Admin > Forums and enable the  “Yes. I want this group to have a forum.” checkbox again. Then it does work. Example: http://www.youthpolicy.org/community/groups/testing-forums-bbpress-2/forum/topic/testin-topic/#post-2667

Thanks for the help so far 🙂

[Jennifer M. Dodd]

For testing purposes:

What happens if you create a new Private group with a forum? Does that forum have a parent of “Group Forums” and show up in the group forums list? Does the group display a Forums tab on its group page? Is the forum accessible from the group’s Forums tab?
What happens if you create a new Public group with a forum? See above questions.

[Fee]

Hello,

absolutely happy about the integration of bbPress 2 into BuddyPress groups I tested this out today. BuddyPress was already installed with group forums on, but not used yet. Installed bbPress completely fresh.
WP 3.5 multisite, bbPress 2.2.3, BuddyPress 1.7-bleeding-#6628, using bp-default theme.
I followed these steps: http://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/
and this guide: http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/

Result: I can create everything vom backend: Forums, topics, replies.
I can add topics in frontend to sitewide forums.
But I cannot create topics to a group forum, also in new groups from frontend – only from backend.
I found the bug here that Forum tab doesn’t show up at group creation. I don’t know if that matters – if I turn group forum on after creation in admin panel, the tab is there, with all forum empty messages and new topic form. And these group forums show up in the backend forums view under group forums, so the hierarchy is correct.

Sure this is a test / dev install, no live site. And there’s no hurry, but I’d like to test more out with your plugin 🙂
Is there something I did wrong until here? Or I could try?

thanks, Fee

[Lynq]

I never had an issue with updating wordpress to 3.5 or updating bbPress so I would guess that it might be a plugin conflict, but I am not sure.

Have you tested deactivating certain plugins?

[johnjack]

Hi All
bbpress –> 2.2.3
wordpress –> 3.5
theme –> various
link to test site http://johnjack.co.uk/?forum=new-forum

I am finding that my forums are displaying in a post template, how do I change this to display using a page template instead?

Please help!!

[evomedia]

Hi i just insalled bbpress to test it but i cant figure out whats wrong i just get a blank page

This is what ive dona so far: I installed the plugin–> created a forum–> created a page which i named forum–> entered the shortcode [bbp-forum-index]–> When i go to the front i see the page click it and up comes the forum i created when i then click the forum and i get the blank page…–> in the adressfield it says http://www.kanin.se/forums/forum/theforumicreated and the page i blank.

I have the latest wordpress and bbpress

feeling stupid for not seeing the possibly easy solution.

I have searched this forum and the webb even watched a 30 min video on the setup of bbpress didnt get any smarter.

Thanks for your help!

[Stephen Edgar]

Update to the latest bbPress 2.2.3 and repeat step 7 in the guide at BuddyPress you linked to above.

[Markus Pezold]

Hi John,

in my situation is the correct version not the problem.
The original forum is on version 1.1 since months. And updated to 1.2 yesterday.
It’s an old forum (since 2002) – migrated to bbPress 0.9 and then 1.0 -> 1.1.
Since May 2011 the forum was deactivated – after some problems with an user. 🙁

Hmmm… I think the problem may lie in the fact that the forum has a lot of anonymous posters. In 0.9 there was an plugin for anonymous posters with meta data. But in version >0.9 these posts were all anonoymous posts without an user.

I’ll test the convertion on a blank installation of WordPress 3.5 today (without any other plugins). And the i’ll report again.

By the way. JJJ – carry on with your great work on bbPress. 🙂